I am doing a lot on Harry Reid corruption. There are about 15 billionare donors to his Senate Majority PAC, led by Soros of course.
There’s a lot of old Chicago Mafia still out there. That also leads to the Jewish mob lawyers who came from Chicago and hung with the Italians. A good book to read is Supermob. Sydney Korshak headed to Hollywood. I’m not anti-semetic, I just compile a database of the names involved and it is what it is.
Pardon this sidebar, but it just hit me reading through the thread that the individual income tax started in 1913. So how did the government even run in 1910? Currently we have many different taxes, the individual tax, corporate taxes, property tax, license taxes, so many different taxes on everything so it seems. I heard once there's 18 taxes on a loaf of bread. You read every quarter that there's record Federal tax revenues. Where does it all go?
Found this: "The origin of the income tax on individuals is generally cited as the passage of the 16th Amendment, passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913; however, its history actually goes back even further. During the Civil War Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1861 which included a tax on personal incomes to help pay war expenses. The tax was repealed ten years later. However, in 1894 Congress enacted a flat rate Federal income tax, which was ruled unconstitutional the following year by the U.S. Supreme Court because it was a direct tax not apportioned according to the population of each state. The 16th amendment, ratified in 1913, removed this objection by allowing the Federal government to tax the income of individuals without regard to the population of each State."
So, I repeat, how did the Federal Government run in 1910? Can we get a list of Federal expenditures for 1910 and how they were paid?
The whole beltway corruption pay-to-play lobbyist mess needs a huge reset. I hope Trump can pull it off. You know damn well he's thinking, "The whole Federal government is a horrible business model. If it were private, it would be filing bankruptcy. What a waste." Well, let it go bankrupt. Whatever it takes to fix the mess.
I remember reading somewhere that when taxation starts to exceed 35%, revolutions start. A lot of Americans are above 35%.